Top 100 Quotes About Computer Science
#1. I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."
Kevin Systrom
#2. If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker
#3. The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#4. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#5. Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.
Frederick Lenz
#6. My background is in tech. I studied computer science, and was working on TechTV, so the first thing I wanted to do was see my favorite motherboard stories hit the front page; you know, like, really geeky stuff.
Kevin Rose
#7. Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
David Chalmers
#8. I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.
Donald Knuth
#9. Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.
John Forbes Nash
#10. Coding is today's language of creativity. All our children deserve a chance to become creators instead consumers of computer science.
Maria Klawe
#11. There are several places in Vietnam where they're teaching computer science from second grade in class, so they don't have a gender divide because everybody is expected to program.
Megan Smith
#12. Ever since Newton, we've done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we're now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.
Douglas Adams
#13. Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.
Matt Blaze
#14. Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.
Kenneth Appel
#15. I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.
Frederick Lenz
#16. I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole
#17. A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.
Frederick Lenz
#18. Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
Steve Ballmer
#19. There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
Hal Abelson
#20. As a Facebook summer intern once told me, In my school's computer science department, there are more Daves than girls.
Sheryl Sandberg
#21. I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.
Jaron Lanier
#22. I think the combination of graduate education in a field like Computer Science and the opportunity to apply this in a work environment like Microsoft is what drove me. The impact these opportunities create can lead to work that has broad, worldwide impact.
Satya Nadella
#23. The mind is an evolved computer program.
Eric Baum
#24. There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.
John Coleman
#25. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.
Donald Knuth
#27. - My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it ...
- They know nothing.
Lois Lowry
#28. I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it's a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.
Tony Hsieh
#29. But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them.
Leonard Adleman
#30. I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.
Steve Jobs
#31. I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
Watt Key
#32. Too few people in computer science are aware of some of the informational challenges in biology and their implications for the world. We can store an incredible amount of data very cheaply.
Sergey Brin
#33. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.
Alan Kay
#34. See, Berkeley has always drawn the nuts and flakes of the academic world. That's what happens when you have a university that offers degrees in both computer science and parapsychology.
Mira Grant
#35. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.
Henry S.F. Cooper Jr.
#36. The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.
Tom DeMarco
#37. Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club.
Ryan Holmes
#38. The truth is that computer science is not really about the computer. It is just a tool to help you see ideas more clearly.
Carlos Bueno
#39. Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#40. A good standalone plugin can also make you a fair amount of money. Many developers make a decent living by simply maintaining and updating one or two crucial plugins that are far better than anything available for free.
Robert Duchnik
#41. When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.
Marissa Mayer
#42. It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
#43. I don't see why religion and science can't cooperate. What's wrong with using a computer to count our blessings?
Robert Orben
#44. Follow your dreams wherever they lead you and pay for those dreams with good jobs in software programming and computer design!
Frederick Lenz
#45. People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.
Donald Knuth
#46. I've actually started a number of businesses in my career. So I'm 28 currently, but when I was about 16, I started building Websites, and that's how I put myself through school. I went to Duke with a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, computer engineering, and then to Princeton.
Aaron Patzer
#47. For those who wish to stay and work in computer science or technology, fields badly in need of their services, let's roll out the welcome mat.
Sheldon Adelson
#48. Our present intricate humanly consciousness evolved after a long journey of struggle. And the beauty of natural selection is that our struggle against nature made us worthy of being rewarded with the 3 lbs. lump of highly advanced biological computer by our Mother Nature herself.
Abhijit Naskar
#49. In the U.S. there are two types of hipsters: those who know how to program and those who serve coffee.
Cesar Hidalgo
#50. Her computer's fan whirred to life, blowing warm air onto her fingers. Two flame-red slits glowed from the monitor. The speakers boomed. "I lived! I died! I live again!"
Olivie had dealt with blue screens, frozen hourglasses, and even the odd hardware conflict back in the day. This was new.
Choong JayVee
#51. I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
Rodney Brooks
#52. Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes.
Edsger Dijkstra
#53. We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.
Jaron Lanier
#54. The radical Left loves attacking people as anti-science when anyone dares question their computer models on global warming.
Ted Cruz
#55. For years, computer scientists were treating operating systems design as sort of an open-reserch issue, when the field's direction had been decided by commercial operations. Computer science has become completely cut off from reality.
David Gelernter
#56. Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.
Peter Landin
#57. We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
Megan Smith
#58. I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
Mayer Hawthorne
#59. The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed
Malcolm Gladwell
#61. Tests are stories we tell the next generation of programmers on a project.
Roy Osherove
#62. Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay
#63. The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas
#64. The main motivations were to try to leverage Google's expertise with large computer systems and to try to give something back to science
Susan Wojcicki
#65. The string is a stark data structure and everywhere it is passed there is much duplication of process. It is a perfect vehicle for hiding information.
Alan J. Perlis
#66. Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
Donald Ervin Knuth
#67. Computer assisted proofs are getting better and better and computers will play a bigger and bigger role in the future.
Enrico Bombieri
#68. Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall
#69. Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#70. Q: Why bother doing proofs about programming languages? They are almost always boring if the definitions are right.
A: The definitions are almost always wrong.
- Anonymous
Benjamin C. Pierce
#71. We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
Philip Greenspun
#72. I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.
Brendan Iribe
#73. Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer.
Frederick Lenz
#74. I majored in Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and worked as a software developer for a couple of years. Then I taught high school computer science for over a decade and a half in Oakland, California.
Gene Luen Yang
#75. Reusability is key in reducing bugs and coding quickly. The more I use a piece of code, the more confident and familiar I become with it, which in turn significantly speeds up my development time.
Robert Duchnik
#76. There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism.
Jon Oringer
#77. I occasionally find myself debating with computer science colleagues whether work on the more applied side can form the basis for good academic computing research. In my view, it clearly can, as long as it yields something sufficiently novel and important concerning computing.
Paul S. Rosenbloom
#78. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.
Cordelia Fine
#79. DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill Gates
#80. Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
#81. Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.
Jennifer Tour Chayes
#82. Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#83. The most important property of a program is whether it accomplishes the intention of its user.
C.A.R. Hoare
#84. I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.
Endre Szemeredi
#85. The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
Eric Schmidt
#86. People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.
Edward Frenkel
#87. Suppose whatever we can recognize we can find. We can if P=NP.
Lance Fortnow
#88. Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
Nicholas Negroponte
#89. An Essay from Andy Weir: How Science Made Me a Writer I'm a nerd. Okay, a lot of people say that these days. But I really am. I was hired as a computer programmer for a national laboratory at age fifteen.
Andy Weir
#90. I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.
Marco Tempest
#91. On second thought, this might not be spurious. Computer science doctorates vs. Comic book sales
Tyler Vigen
#92. BASIC is a language invented in 1964 to provide computer access to non-science students.
Anonymous
#93. He asked the class how many of us were taking computer science, and everybody but me and this one girl who didn't speak English raised their hands.
Ned Vizzini
#94. Throughout my academic career, I'd given some pretty good talks. But being considered the best speaker in the computer science department is like being known as the tallest of the Seven Dwarfs.
Randy Pausch
#95. The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.
Michael Monroe
#96. Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.
Marvin Minsky
#97. I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.
Donald Knuth
#98. I recommend, for many people, the study of computer science. Our natural resource in America is the mind. The mindset in computer science is very similar to the mindset in Zen.
Frederick Lenz
#99. I try to learn certain areas of computer science exhaustively; then I try to digest that knowledge into a form that is accessible to people who don't have time for such study.
Donald Knuth
#100. This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.
Jerry Moran
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